Ensure to unescape special MSBuild characters.

src/app/FakeLib/MSBuildHelper.fs

@@ -45,13 +45,22 @@ let xname name = XName.Get(name, msbuildNamespace)
 let loadProject (projectFileName : string) : MSBuildProject = 
  MSBuildProject.Load(projectFileName, LoadOptions.PreserveWhitespace)
 
+// See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228186.aspx
+let internal unescapeMSBuildSpecialChars s =
+ let replExpr = new Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("%..")
+ replExpr.Replace(s, new Text.RegularExpressions.MatchEvaluator(
+ fun _match -> match _match.Value with
+ | "%24" -> "$" | "%25" -> "%" | "%27" -> "'" | "%40" -> "@"
+ | "%3B" -> ";" | "%3F" -> "?" | "%2A" -> "*" 
+ | _ -> _match.Value))
+
 /// [omit]
 let internal getReferenceElements elementName projectFileName (doc : XDocument) = 
  let fi = fileInfo projectFileName
  doc.Descendants(xname "Project").Descendants(xname "ItemGroup").Descendants(xname elementName) 
  |> Seq.map (fun e -> 
  let a = e.Attribute(XName.Get "Include")
- let value = convertWindowsToCurrentPath a.Value
+ let value = a.Value |> unescapeMSBuildSpecialChars |> convertWindowsToCurrentPath 
 
  let fileName =
  if value.StartsWith(".." + directorySeparator) || (not <| value.Contains directorySeparator) then